You can sit back and watch them fight Sith on their own, conserving your energy or jump in and assist. You get to fight alongside other Jedi in mass pitched battles and the AI teammates are genuinely useful. It adds greatly to the atmosphere, as does another development. Classic Star Wars tunes wash over you as you take on reborn dark Jedi throughout the game. The graphics are very similar to Jedi Outcast, but the sound here is scorchingly good. That's an interesting choice to consider on each tier of missions. Why would you bother doing five missions per tier when you don't have to you might wonder? Well each mission progresses your force skill tree by one notch so you can choose to progress slower through the game but more powerfully. Again though a better aspect to the game than Jedi Outcast and one that certainly adds more fun. It adds to gameplay but feels like a missed opportunity. The Speeder bike section handles poorly and is more of a chore, and the sections of Tautaun use and shooting tie fighters are small and over too quickly and easily. Unfortunately it isn't done to the best of possibilities. This is a great idea for mixing up the game play. Some missions require you to ride a speeder bike or a Tauntaun on Hoth, some to fight alongside Chewbacca or shoot Tie fighters in space. These missions therefore allow a variety of gameplay options. It's an interesting take on a way to progress through a game and indeed some missions are more fun than others so you can leave out ones you don't like. Go through this process three times to get to the final boss fight. You select four out of five available missions to play in any order and then you complete a 'boss' level to progress to the next tier of five missions. The game also adds some variety by staging levels into three groups. Nevertheless we're off to a better start than Jedi Outcast. You choose to build on these with a simple skill tree, but its bit too simple because pretty much everyone is going to choose to use 'Heal' and then all the Dark Force powers. Nope, in Jedi Academy you are thrown into the game from the off with a Lightsaber and force powers to use. There's none of the scratching around trying to find exits or terribly pixelated tunnels and having only a blaster for five horrible levels before you get going. Overall I can't say I'm disappointed with this game, I'm just not as excited to move its sequel up any higher in my priority list.Ģ8h PlayedThe follow up to Jedi Outcast does away with some of the problems of that game. This is one thing I can't wave off as a product of the game's age- games like Halo and Morrowind were able to present their stories in truly intriguing and explosive ways, so Jedi Academy gets no leniency from me. In addition to this, having a lightsaber means you have very little incentive to ever try one of the numerous blasters and other weapons the game gives you access to- why would I use anything other than the lightsaber? As a final note, while the story does seem interesting as an elevator pitch, the execution is terribly bland and excruciatingly dull. However, it's hard to hold the game up to standards set by games over a decade after it. This game would have heavily benefitted from a more focused dueling system such as Metal Gear Rising or even For Honor.
#JEDI KNIGHT JEDI ACADEMY VS JEDI OUTCAST MANUAL#
I looked through the game's manual and while there was a fairly expansive list of different techniques, moves, and special attacks, none ever felt like they had any superior function to just wildly swinging and hoping I came out on top. But when you do come up against another lightsaber user, the outcome of such battles feels almost random.
Tusken Raiders, Stormtroopers, and the other various enemies you come across fall to your blade like so many tufts of grass.
By the very nature of what Star Wars makes out the lightsaber to be, anything other than another lightsaber user is pretty much defenseless against you. I find the base concept- kind of DOOM in Star Wars- to be very interesting, particularly cause who doesn't love playing as a customizable Jedi? The big problem for me, I think, is that playing as a Jedi in this game with a lightsaber is rather dull. That has more to do I think with my expectations going into it than the game's actual qualities. I have to be honest, this game was kind of underwhelming.
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